@dredmorbius@toot.cat@kyle@librem.one Thanks, though mission and purpose aren't cashflow generators.
C-Corps can also revert or be sold, as appears to have occurred with Ello (I'm uncertain what the story is, but following a very loud public benefit orientating, things got vewwy vewwy qwiet after the founders were uninstalled, and distinctly opaque).
Purism does have service offerings, e.g., the rather premium-priced SIM / mobile-resale service.
I'm just getting more clued in to the inherent traps of technology pricing models, and why dark patterns (original AT&T, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat, Google, Facebook, ...) are so prevalent. It's what cost and revenue structures dictate.
Or look at the failures: Osborne, Wang, DEC, Cray, SGI, Palm, Sun, every commercial Linux distro not named "Red Hat". Most hit a point where revenues couldn't fund the next development stage. Yahoo shows that the monetised eyeballs can glaze over as well.
Somehow there's got to be recurring revenue. I'm watching with interest, I don't quite see it. Selling durable widgets, eventually everyone's got s sufficiently familiar, sufficiently performant, sufficiently useful, and not self-evidently booby-trapped-and-tripwired widget. Though as the niche entrant, that might take a while. Premium power-user market, maybe faster readily than otherwise though.
And I can understand not spilling the secret sauce if you do have this figured, but I'm scratching my head, as cats do....